The Official Madonna Thread III

[Rocky Raven]

I like the MV! Even though it wasnt really IMPRESSIVE me much !^_______^!
But yeah, whatever she do, it's her choice to be different from all her previous ones!So enjoy!
Thanks so much for all the Link!
I have been waitin' for it day by day!
Cant wait to own my own "HARD CANDY" album!>_<!

[bondingo]

Okay, it's official. I now REALLY like 4 Minutes. I'm just really worried about how the rest of Hard Candy will sound since Candy Shop still sounds like crap to me.

[Vinylfantasy]

Check out this very charming interview with GMTV.

More Miles Away

A few weeks ago our correspondent from Japan, RoccoC reported that the new Madonna song Miles Away from Hard Candy, was going to debut in Japan, almost a month before the album's release date, as the opening theme of a new Japanese TV Drama titled "Change"

Madonna fans will be disappointed to hear today that there won't be any more "advance prewiew" of Miles Away coming from Japan, as the release date for "Change" has indeed changed and according to Fuji Tv, the show won't premiere until May 12 (instead of April 1st).

To quote the song's lyrics: So far away, so far away, so far away...

Source: Madonna Tribe

[Vinylfantasy]

This little goody surfaced earlier, an unreleased extended version of Music!

[Dustie]

I have mixed feelings about 4 Minutes, both the song and the video. And about the new album overall as well. I don't get the melodies, the choruses, the cover, the general attitude of this album. Don't know, I just don't feel this...

[LEOyumi]

OMG OMG OMG OMG!

The video for 4 Minutes killed me! It's soooooooooooooo good, I wasn't expecting.. Maddie never disappoints me hehe FLAWLESS VIDEO!

[Kaiouforever]

I don't think the video is HORRIBLE, but it definitely could have been better. There are a lot of seemingly boring parts, and I'm sorry to any JT fans but he looked gross. I did like the whole black hole-ish thing, that was cool. Overall though, I feel like M didn't give 100% percent. =[

I do like when she slides through that car, that was cool. =D

[ImpactBreaker]

^Well I think JT went for a more mature look so that he and madonna wouldn't look like mother and child. I think it worked out fine. He looked pretty normal to me, actually, and I thinik it went well

[Rocky Raven]

Originally Posted by bondingo

Okay, it's official. I now REALLY like 4 Minutes. I'm just really worried about how the rest of Hard Candy will sound since Candy Shop still sounds like crap to me.

The same to me! I 'm glad to see that someone have my thought !!!
I cant stand "Candy Shop" It's even give me any feelin'!!!

[Vinylfantasy]

Rolling Stone about Hard Candy

Madonna hooked up with two of hip-hop's top beatmakers — Timbaland and Pharrell Williams — for her eleventh studio album. "She just wanted energy, she just wants to dance," says Williams, who produced about half the disc, including "Beat Goes On," featuring Kanye West ("It has a Megadeth-dance feel," says Williams), and the raw, synthy house jam "Give It 2 Me." Justin Timberlake co-wrote and co-produced several tracks, including the Timbaland-produced single "4 Minutes." "She was like, 'I don't want any ballads, I just want people to move,'" Williams adds. "It's like a sex and workout album."

Source: Rolling Stone

Watch Her Work It



There's a teasing and exciting mention of a live event to be broadcast by MSN on April 30 on the concert page of MSN Music... Check it out.

Source: Madonna Tribe

A show, a dinner and a globe

Bosses at Vanity Fair are auctioning the polystyrene and plaster globe Madonna poses alongside on the cover of the magazine's May issue for an upcoming charity auction.
Madonna signed the globe, drawing a heart over Africa.

The proceeds of the eBay.com auction, which starts on Monday April 7, will benefit Raising Malawi, the charity which helps orphans in the African nation - one of the poorest in the world.

Madonna is also offering two tickets for a New York show she's planning at the end of this month, accommodation and dinner as part of the auction package.

Source: Contact Music (found on Madonna Tribe)

PEOPLE.com Previews Madonna's Hard Candy

"Workin' up a sweat/ that's what music's for," Madonna sings on "Heartbeat," the pumped-up fourth song on Hard Candy, her latest album, due April 29. Indeed, the pop diva makes good on her promise – singing her way through an hour of Euro-flavored dance tracks infused with retro, house beats. PEOPLE.com took an advanced listen – and can reveal five fast facts about Madonna's latest.

• On "Spanish Lesson," produced by the Neptunes, Madonna does, in fact, go bilingual, offering liberal translations of phrases like, "Entiendo," which she says means, "I get it," over a funked-up flemenco guitar riff. (Literal translation: "I understand.")

• Kanye West offers a fast-paced rap on "Beat Goes On," the eighth track, breathlessly rapping, "I think I'm going to try something new."

• The singer indulges her choral side on the album-closer "Voices," which features production by Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and Nate "Danjahandz" Hills. The song builds to a dark, cinematic crescendo, as the album closes with one lone tone.

• Madonna sings, "You always have the biggest heart/ though we're 6,000 miles apart," on "Miles Away," a direct allusion to living and working far away from hubby Guy Richie.

• Madonna really wants you to dance: Two songs – opening track "Candy Store" and "Beat Goes On" – feature overt calls to action. "Gotta get up off your seat," she sings on the latter, bolstered by the Neptunes's production and West's rapping.

Source: People.com

[Vinylfantasy]

This mashup is fabs!



(and so is this painting)

[Partino]

april ... this month turned out to be so expensive ....

all 4 versions of "HARD Candy" (japanese ver., 3LP+CD ver., DELUXE ver., normal edition), all 4 minutes singles (UK (2CD's, US), all 6 versions of ayu's new single and all 10 LP's of ayu-mi-x 6 ... sums up to a total of .... ~ EURO 270 (shipping not included) .... I'm so broke after this

[Vinylfantasy]

Check out Pop Justice's interpretation of the 4 Minutes video.

[ImpactBreaker]

^LOL that's hilarious! Major lolz to the "serious political message: madonna taking off clothes because of global warming" - "JT is older and wiser now...well he's older." - "substitute for dove" and "something about the ozone layer"

[Vinylfantasy]

Timbaland can count to four. (sometimes he gets it wrong)

[ImpactBreaker]

OMg that one was hilarious too

[Vinylfantasy]

4 Minutes is now on the TRL roster. Please vote, it only takes 2 seconds and you don't have to give them any personal info at all. (you can also vote as many times as you want )

[Vinylfantasy]

Chopard designed the ''M-dolla'' ring and more for ''Hard Candy''



Chopard has announced a second collaboration with the undisputed Queen of Pop, Madonna, for her new album, Hard Candy, due to hit the stores on April 28. The album cover will feature Madonna showing off the “M-dolla” knuckle ring while in a provocative pose and donning a WWE-like wrestling title belt at the waist with a huge letter M.



Chopard Co-President Caroline Gruosi-Scheufele designed the ring exclusively for the pop legend. Madonna’s hip-hop pseudonym “M-dolla” is outlined in 258 brilliant cut white diamonds, incorporating a Chopard signature mobile diamond in the design of the letter M.



Madonna is also pictured on the album cover wearing a Chopard-designed diamond encrusted gold cross from the Happy Diamonds collection. The Swiss luxury jeweler previously teamed up with the Material Girl to design the pave diamond “Hung Up” necklace for her 2005 Confessions On A Dance Floor album.

Source: www.chopard.com (found on Drowned Madonna)

First Listen: Madonna - Hard Candy



This afternoon we went to a brilliantly decorated room in East London to hear the new Madonna album while sipping champagne & eating jelly beans. Sounds good huh? Well it was! Anyone fearing a full on urban attack - don't worry. 'Hard Candy' is full of long disco pop songs - it just has some heavy beats! Here's our track by track rundown:

1. Candy Shop: Here we go! Madonna wants to be our '1-stop candy shop - your lollipop'. Yum! This is produced by The Neptunes and is filled with bleeps and swirls. It ends with a 'sticky but sweet' rap by Pharrell.

2. 4 Minutes: You all know this one!

3. Give It 2 Me: Not a Furtado/Timbo cover but a Pharrell track that's going to be the 2nd single. Let us tell you now - it's mindblowingly amazing. There's cowbells, twinkles and a funny vocoder you might have heard on 'Music'. Think old school pop Madonna but fired up at 300 mph. There's a funky break near the end where Madonna shouts 'don't stop!', the music stops and a male voice sings 'left to the right'

4. Heartbeat: 'Probably the 3rd single', Heartbeat has a synthy 80s sounding intro. Madge tells us that 'when I dance I feel free!'. There's something about the melody when she sings 'you know I feel it in my Heartbeat' that's really cute!.

5. Miles Away: This starts deceptively with guitar that reminds us of 'Don't Tell Me'. Is it going to be a ballad? Course not silly! 5 seconds in and here comes a pounding bassline. 'I just woke up from a fuzzy dream, you won't believe the things I've seen.' This is the first song that doesn't hold our attention all the way but it's got a dreamy ending.

6. She's Not Me: It starts with 4 claps and then all hell breaks loose. This is the tale of a jilted lover and has about 7 different elements. It sounds kind of like a sequel to 'Deeper and Deeper' with the passion, the fastness and the twirls. Totally hypnotic - it's a Timberlake/land production but it could come straight from the disco house of Nile Rodgers. Oh and it would mix into Anita Ward's 'Ring My Bell' perfectly. Also it's REALLY LONG.

7. Incredible: The slowest track so far, but it's full of strange noises. It's kind of what 'Cherish' might sound like if it was looped and scratched up by a DJ. A sweet solo piano maintains the sweetness under the nasty dirty bass that's everywhere else, but that bass is totally needed to stop it being smaltzy. It ends with a drum breakdown, that we're sure wil be replaced with a beatboxer on tour, and lots of sexy 'OOH's.

8. Beat Goes On: Featuring Mr. Kanye West, this is a full on party disco song. 'On and on, the beat goes - you don't have the luxury of time - say what's on your mind'. It has a 'BEEP BEEP' bit that totally reminds us of Donna Summer "Bad Girl" (youtube it - it's awesome!). Then there's some dreamy sounding chords and up pops Kanye for a rap with some 'Like A Prayer' HEY!s going on underneath him.

9. Dance 2night: Not a Paul McCartney cover! This is a bit downbeat sounding, but it's still not a ballad. It's just a bit dark. Wise ol' Madonna tells us all that 'You don't have to be beautiful to be understood. You don't have to be rich & famous to be good'.

10. Spanish Lessons: She's always loved throwing a bit of Spanish into her songs and now here's a full on Spanish assault! Think matador trumpets and bullfighting. Plus learn her language and you might get lucky - "You're so loco & you drive me crazy. If you do your homework maybe I will give it up"

11. Devil Wouldn't Recognize You: The 2nd best song on the album, this is 'Cry Me A River' 5 years later, and sung by Madonna. It's got a gorgeous sad, synth opener which is suddenly compounded by hynotizing bleeps. Queen Madge sings 'Over and over you're pushing me onto the floor and I keep coming back for more'. It's still not a ballad though. Hooray!

12. Voices: And we're at the end. Boo hoo. It's a creepy sounding ending though and it's almost as if a song off 'Erotica' has been brought up to date with lyrics like 'Who is the master, who is the slave' and 'Are you walking the dog or is that dog walking you'.

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So there we have it. Course when we listen to it all again we'll probably completely change our mind about our favourite tracks!

As massive Madonna fans we're very happy that she hasn't gone off the rails as feared. It's simply a Madonna pop album for 2008 which starts out having a full on party and ends in that dark corner Ms. Ciccone knows so well.

Are you excited?

Source: Capital Radio

I am SO excited! Especially with all the throwbacks to disco! Anything that reminds them of Bad Girls by Donna Summer is A-OK in my book.

[Cyria]

That review makes the album sounds really good, and I'm glad it's said to still have a disco/pop feel.

[Vinylfantasy]

Guess what guys and gals?!

Time for a new thread!!!